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The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling.

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Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.

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I can't stand the short story form, which, after all, is a magazine form.

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I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

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After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

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We are all naturally xenophobic.

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I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.

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Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

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Your subconscious mind is trying to help you all the time. That's why I keep a journal - not for chatter but for mostly the images that flow into the mind or little ideas. I keep a running journal, and I have all of my life, so it's like your gold mine when you start writing.

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I don't feel tentative when I start to write. I've usually thought about a novel or novella for several years and created a lot of juice and density and energy by that time so by the time I get ready to go, I just let 'er fling, you know.

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I'm a time person. It's the one discipline I manage.

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Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

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Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.

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I grew up in an agricultural family, and I never distanced myself from where the food comes from. I think it's quite natural.

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I'm afraid that eating in restaurants reflects one's experiences with movies, art galleries, novels, music - that is, characterized by mild amusement but with an overall feeling of stupidity and shame. Better to cook for yourself.

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There aren't any real dumb people in my voices. It's always irritated me about Hollywood dialogue - there's so much dialogue that would just bore a Ford mechanic. This is not how people talk.

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Fiction writers tend to err either making people more than they are or less than they are. I'd rather err on the side of the former.

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